Weta Working On VFX For BATMAN v SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE

The groundbreaking visual effects company Weta Digital (The Lord of the Rings, Avatar, The Avengers) have revealed that as well as the final instalment of The Hobbit trilogy, they're also working on Warner Bros.' massively anticipated Batman v Superman.

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By staypuffed - 6/30/2014

In a new interview with Collider, visual effects supervisors Joe Letteri and Dan Lemmon of Weta Digital spoke of their upcoming projects. The New Zealand-based company, having previously worked on Avatar, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and The Lord of the Rings, among others, are currently providing VFX for The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies; they have now revealed they're on board Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as well. "We are working on the Man of Steel sequel, yes," they confirmed. "We can’t say much more than that, but we’re excited." Weta created the Krypton opening sequence in last year's Man of Steel, but the canvas is open for speculation here. Are they working on Superman sequences, or perhaps creating Wonder Woman's homeworld of Amazon? These are mere guesses, so only time will tell what the acclaimed and groundbreaking company will do. Batman v Superman hits theatres May 6th, 2016.

I think that WETA doing the VFX might give you all an idea of who the villain might possibly be. WETA is the best for creature effects else they could have easily gone with ILM who is best at more robotic effects. Now which possible creature villain that can be in BVS???

There's pretty much zero chance that WETA & MARVEL will work as often as DC & WETA... Just cuz of ILM!Lucas' VFX company which is now under Disney but does other studio films as well (PACIFIC RIM) & as WETA is Peter Jackson's company & he's in bed with WB; hence more WB projects go to Gollum/KingKong/Ceaser creators WETA & Disney stuff goes to STAR WARS / JarJarBinks / Kaiju creator ILM!

Dear lord, I hope it isn't Doomsday. It is too early for a "Death of Superman" story line. The general audience doesn't have enough invested in Supes' character to have him killed off and actually resonate with them. They need to do that story line after about 3-4 movies. They need to do a Doomsday story line only after a proper introduction of the Justice League and after we've seen them battle it out together to save the world or have a few great conflicts. If it IS Doomsday, I will lose all faith in DC. If they [frick] that story line up, I am done with anything film/TV related for DC/Warner Bros -_-

This is great news. I like seeing what Weta can do. I hope this will allow Weta to release pictures of the Justice League: Mortal suits. I also wonder if they will have a hand in making the suits for the rest of the JL cast.

But Wraith and Doomsday are such horrible villians, I would rather we get brainaic. The fights in Man of Steel were kind of boring, they should work on those fights since that's all this franchise has going for it.

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